Re: How to make a network scanner Oki MC261 work

Ok.

thank you very much for looking into this.

For now I give up, maybe I try attaching via USB.

The python files aren't built on make. And adding the the pardus dir to 
SUBDIRS does not change this.

This configure/make stuff is way over my head. I asked ChatGPT for the 
hint about the SUBDIRS *grin*

regards

JPT


Am 21.06.25 um 20:23 schrieb Ralph Little:
> Hi,
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 21, 2025 at 10:55 AM JPT via sane-devel 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>     Thanks Ralph
>
>     Seems to be installed just fine.
>
>     SANE_DEBUG_DLL=5 scanimage-L 2>>(grep-i oki)
>     [19:46:44.589164] [dll] add_backend: adding backend `oki'
>     [19:46:44.589192] [dll] load: searching backend `oki' in
>     `/usr/lib/sane'
>     [19:46:44.589199] [dll] load: trying to load
>     `/usr/lib/sane/libsane-oki.so.1'
>     [19:46:44.589215] [dll] load: dlopen()ing
>     `/usr/lib/sane/libsane-oki.so.1'
>     [19:46:44.591812] [dll] init: initializing backend `oki'
>     [19:46:44.592042] [dll] init: backend `oki' is version 1.0.0
>
>     Next step would be either to attach via USB (some effort ;) or
>     tell it
>     the IP address.
>
>     recently I added an IP address to xerox_mfp.conf which made the old
>     scanner work.
>
>     But the exact syntax was extremely hard to find because most network
>     topics deal with making network access to an USB scanner connected
>     to a
>     remote PC.
>
>     and I fear the syntax for the Oki would be different.
>
>     any idea how I could solve this?
>
>
> OK, yeah it seems like the OKI install package also installs an 
> additional demon okiscand which provides device management functions.
> I'm fairly sure that the code for this is not in that repo. When we 
> come to make it available, we might have to fill that gap with 
> something ourselves.
> Probably won't be a daemon, but something that can read a config file 
> to keep things simple.
>
> Cheers,
> Ralph
>